succès de scandale
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The success of work of art due primarily to scandalous subject matter rather than artistic merit.
Example Sentences
- "Whatever else, Irréversible is already a succès de scandale."
- "The book was a success – of a kind: a succès de scandale; but it secured him a valuable patron."
- "She, on the other hand, was famous or infamous as the writer of a first novel which had had a succès de scandale ... the last thing she had wanted or expected, not realizing that honest probing of matters generally discussed with lifted eyebrows at dinner tables could shock."
- "She first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV miniseries."
- "In 1972, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari registered a succès de scandale with the French publication of Anti-Oedipus, now widely considered one of the most important poststructuralist texts."
- "Nabokov may well have attended also, in early June 1921, the Busch-conducted premiere of Paul Hindemith's one-act operas Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, and Das NuschNuschi, a major succès de scandale."
Etymology
Borrowing from French succès de scandale.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: succès de scandale